Markdown Formatting Reference

10/14/2025

MD Guide for Reference

note to self that the main astro prose formatting overrides some of the md formatting

Document Title

Short introduction.

Topic

Content.

Another Topic

More content.

Text formatting

• Italics using single asterisks or underscores.
• Bold using double asterisks or underscores.
• Bold italics by combining them.
• Strikethrough using tildes.
• Underlines by using HTML tags directly.

Blockquotes seem to be overwritten by base formatting

Lists - appear to be overwitten

Unordered list

• Item one
  • Nested item
• Item two
• Item three

Ordered list

1. Step one
2. Step two
   1. Sub-step
3. Step three

Links and images

Text Here You Want to Hyperlink
https://armcclain.github.io/ (auto-link)

Images stored in /public/assets can be linked like this.

Code

Inline code: using single tics

Block code fences:

# R example
library(dplyr)
iris %>%
  group_by(Species) %>%
  summarize(across(everything(), mean))

note to self there seems to be some sort of default color formatting that is ugly but not super important rn